Regardless ofthesatellite remained on earth, Satrian had a good time waiting for the launch.
The night was a little too cold for the preparations, but the Viimsi Open Air Museum was a perfect place for such event and the surrondings just beautiful. We will try again within few days!See Pictures

What is SDR MK1.5 `Andrus`

Second version of the popular SDR receiver has built-in 10/100base Ethernet adapter, which allows using up to 400kHz IF bandwidth over the network. New design also includes new more powerful processor, now enabling to use full capacity of the radio circuitry making it up to 10 times more powerful.

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TX8M `Satrian`board inside the MK1.5 housing!

The UHF front panel connector is actually longer than the one in the picture, but as the correct one is on its way from DigiKey, the shorter version is fitted for time being.
One of the end panels has to have openings and silkscreen for all the extra connectors, so it has to be shipped together with the boards.
The whole combo consumes about 1.5 amps in its current configuration, what is close enough to the calculated value. This number should stay below 1A if the exciter chip, 4GHz secondary up/downconverter and 24-bit signal chain is not fitted, so in its basic configuration with just 2.1GHz primary downconverter and bandpass filters, the board is still possible to feed from dual-ended USB cable only.